Royce Gracie: Mastering Jiu-Jitsu & Defying Odds | Undeniable with Joe Buck 

And a cheater, don't forget that. Just saying.

Royce is one of the nicest guys. I trained with him back in the Fabio and Ethan days. He's still in the Southbay.

In all fairness,Royce must be an idiot to believe that helio was weak or learned by watching or added any leverage to anything.Rather,gradually the gracies just made judo effective for match fighting,if anything Carlson and rolled did far more technically than helio.

​@scarred10 your the idiot here

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um thank you to the japanese bringing it to brazil lol

If it wasn't for the Gracie's there wouldn't have been any UFC, and they brought Brazilian jiu-jitsu to us in America. But people don't realize is that we had catches catch can wrestling, in America since the 1800s also in the UK. To make it short catch wrestling was taught in America up until 1960. What had happened to catch wrestling was pro wrestling, they started the fake wrestling. If that didn't happen Americans would have been training and catch wrestling from the '60s up until now, and they do teach catch wrestling now. But if you look up the history of catch as catch can wrestling there were gyms in America that taught you that style of wrestling, and the boxing. But it all stopped because of the pro wrestling fixing the matches, so Lou Thieze went too Japan and started teaching the Japanese catch wrestling. That's where sakuraba comes in. The Gracie Hunter as they call him. When Royce Gracie fought Saku The second time , Royce came up dirty for steroids so that second fight was a no contest. In the third fight sakuraba was way past his prime, and Royce beat him. But catch wrestling is a great style of submission wrestling, just like sambo. Don't get me wrong I am not taking anything from the Gracie's, I trained with Renzo Gracie for years. But I come from a wrestling background, so I really like catch wrestling because there's a lot of wrestling in it folk style Greco-Roman style and freestyle. But again if it wasn't for the gracies there would be no UFC. And if it wasn't for fake wrestling, Americans would have been training in catch wrestling for years, we had our own style of submission wrestling way before the Gracies Father was ever born. And if you want to go back even further, the Greeks had pancration. But there are no books on that and they lost that style thousands of years ago. But I agree with you 100% if it wasn't for them we wouldn't know anything about ground fighting.

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@@thomasjusinski7286 Jack Dempsey would’ve been incredibly close to what we think of as an MMA fighter because he was a judoka who also trained to catch wrestling.

The Gracie’s selected and stacked the deck in early UFC. BJJ is not and never was a jujitsu. Maeda never learned jujitsu. They learned judo. Did-Gracie’s are all hype and ego fed 🐄 💩

Same !!!!! ❤

I remember when they asked him if he was the best fighter in the world and he laughed and said my brother Rickson is 10x better than me...everyone was like who the FUCK is Rickson Gracie, it was mind blowing lmao

No way!? That’s awesome, what a cool experience.

@@carlossalazar4160 Carlos if you look at Royce’s association schools and then wait for him to come to that association, you can meet him too at a seminar .

Actually, this is not true

Leverage is necessary in all arts, when done effectively.

@@waltpowell7254 what’s not true?

That is not true, BJJ is a completely different art. Any old Judo or Jiu Jitsu practitioners can get EASILY submitted and defeated by a BJJ fighter (as it happened before)

That's not due to the Gracies "inventing" leverage, that's called neglecting Newaza. In standup Judo, Hello was getting tossed around like a rag doll, his leverage couldn't stop him from getting his balance shaken and tossed 22 times in a single match against the little dude.@@andresil8330

There are so many lies. Rickson was asked to fight in the UFC for free, but he refused because he had a family to feed; Rorion was pocketing all the money, and since Rickson could speak or read in English, he signed a contract saying that he could not fight in the US independently of Rorions management, that is the reason he ended up fighting in Japan. Royce to this day keeps repeating the same lies.

Rickson had already fallen out with rorion by then,Royce later left him too

Joe moreira taught kimo the basics before the Royce fight.Royce never fought anyone as strong as kimo before that even though kimoi was useles technically

That fight would've been much different if royce didn't hold onto kimos pony tail (i'm sure that's a gracie jiu-jitsu move) and wear him down a lil and get a few shots in but i believe kimo would have pounded him out otherwise and at that point in the fight kimo was just way too strong for royce to pull anything off from the bottom i think kimo just would've muscled out of every grip and attempt from royce but that's my opinion. Either way kimo was the real winner cause royce had nothing 4 his next fight and had 2 withdraw and kimo came running out 2 celebrate fresh as a daisy and royce couldn't even walk on his own.

@@mikomiko926 hair pulling was allowed then.Royce pulled out due to exhaustion and the useless steve jenum went on to win the tournament. Royce certainly would have beaten him normally.Royces style was very weak for mma rules,better for no time limit vale tudo.

Yet he trains jiu jitsu in case he gets taken off his feet. Last I heard he was a brown belt

Yet he trains jiu jitsu in case he gets taken off his feet. Last I heard he was a brown belt

There's no takedown defense in kickboxing. Luckily for Alex, he's an MMA fighter now.

They selected the fighter and stacked the deck in their favor. There frauds. MMA came around when Brazilian judo was no longer had enough to win fights.

​@@jjs3890Brazilian Judo aways lost to the Gracies. Just search the Gracies fights against both Ono brothers, Takeo Yano and Geo Omori. The Gracies always won more than they lost.

They didn't start vale tudo,it was in brazil before them

​@@memysurname7521not so,they both loat and hadvmany draws to the japs

No rounds, no time limit, anything goes except biting and eye gouging. If those rules are designed to favor Gracie then what stupid point are you trying to make? Is being an idiot a choice you make or something you can't help?

Who wasn't. The Gracie's don't believe in drugs, that includes weed.

Yeah, I believe he tested positive for steroids after the fight.

Sakuraba also had a suspicious bulking before one of his fights against Wand. And then, there's the whole Guy Mezger thing where it looks like the promotion declared Sakuraba the winner even tho he didn't won the match. And Sakuraba would later not only talk about it unapologetically but even make fun of mezger, showing he wasn't against "winning" matches on that way. What say much about his controversial win over Royler. To know more about Sakuraba "win" vs Mezger search "Pride and Glory Sakuraba Guy Mezger". Sakuraba confess pride didn't kept his contract and provoke Mezger even knowing what happened.

Bla bla bla. Ralek Gracie beat his ass eventually lol

That's not true. Youre just a hater, kiddo

That is true, but be careful that the fun dumb boys will jump on you here.

@@SomoshiphopRadio😂 only after the dis-Gracie’s tossed generation after generation at him. Sakarabe > Gracie family.

​@@jjs3890 It happens, sometimes you win sometimes you lose, Sakuraba himself faced defeat against a BJJ practioner in Arona, had to pull guard against the BJJ guy and still lost. He lost to one of the Nogueira brothers too. And many others Japanese catch wrestling guys lost to the Gracies . This is why people threat Sakuraba as so important. He is the exception to the rule that was the Gracies domination. And then, there's the whole Guy Mezger thing where it looks like the promotion declared Sakuraba the winner even tho he didn't won the match. And Sakuraba would later not only talk about it unapologetically but even make fun of mezger, showing he wasn't against "winning" matches on that way. What say much about his controversial win over Royler. To know more about Sakuraba "win" vs Mezger search "Pride and Glory Sakuraba Guy Mezger". Sakuraba confess pride didn't kept his contract and provoke Mezger even knowing what happened.

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Really? He always seems like a great guy in interviews. Sad to hear that.

My exact feelings. Now has to live here to be a carpetbagger. Try to express your true feelings here then you will get banned.

His perceived rudeness is cultural, I train with the family, once you get to know them, they are some of the warmest people on earth.

Ok ok looks like your the defender and police of this comment section

I met him he was cool In Torrence ca

It would be due to copyright issues...blame Dana.

@@idx1941 thank you for your reply. I will change my rating.

Your comment is not correct, GJJ is built to fight in the real chaos of street fights or cage fights without any rules, time limits or weight classes. The UFC is entertainment and fast paced to deliver KO's. One of GJJ's important mindsets is to use energy efficiency and just wear your opponent down. GJJ is completely opposite of what the UFC has morphed into. The present UFC is kick boxing or boxing with smaller gloves. The present UFC would not allow a GJJ guy to fight because it would be boring. Rule sets make fights. Think deeper.

Joe Montana would be a third string quarterback to the athletes of today

Yes, and Matt Hughes and everybody else learned Brazilian jujitsu. You don’t even have a point. Without Royce and the Gracie family people would still be years behind.

@@jameson6930 No , he would not, and that's a very ignorant comment. Joe Montana is one of the Top 2 QBs of all time. Brock Purdy just made the SB. Do you really think he's better than Joe Cool, under today's softer rules?

the mistake you make is comparing past and present. real comparison the way I see it is that if the present go to past and just fight the way back not knowing whats today, who will win? then bring the past to present and fight like today without knowing the past. What will happen? they will evolve, too.

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Traditional, effective self-defense training...like what exactly?

@@yew2oob954 Kempo, Karate, Jujutsu, Weapons, and other complete systems, ideally, that have zero focus on sport and are 100% street/military/combat effective. I have no qualms with BJJ, as I have no qualms with javelin throwing or ping pong. It's when they claim self defense effectiveness and get people hurt where I have to call BS. This is especially true if people are claiming to have invented or originated or even "improved" on well-esteblished arts that have been used on the street and in combat for centuries.

@@chipsebastian8657 How long have you trained any or all of these "complete" systems. Without a sport aspect how do you know that are "100%" effective?

@@yew2oob954I've trained since 1984, and specifically in traditional self defense since 1993. It's fallacy to think if you win a match you win in a street fight, especially against and attacker or multiple attackers with weapons, a lot bigger than you, when you're unprepared for it, when you're on pavement or gravel, etc. There is absolutely no evidence to bear this out to justify "playing" at self defense. How do I know the effectiveness? Well, what did the Samurai use on the battlefield and to defend hearth and home? Pre-sport Karate, Jujutsu, weapons training. The Chinese armies, as Chuan Fa developed? Pre-sport Kung-Fu, Chin Na, weapons training. I suppose we could train our 60-year old, 90lb. ladies to roll around with a guy until she chokes him out, while coming out of the store with her arms full of groceries, though.

@@chipsebastian8657 That sounds good but what you've said is a lie: You mentioned that BJJ is lacking and unrealistic because in the case of: Multiple Attackers Weapons Bigger People it would not work. In the first two cases, with multiple attackers and weapons you can literally run away and in fact, that would be the best option. So the "systems" you've claimed are "better" do not offer a "better" solution. For the final point, if you are claiming that BJJ has not proven itself against bigger opponents, you are outright lying. You are living in a fantasy land where the stories of the Samurai mean you don't have to test anything. How do you "know" your "more complete" systems work at all if there is no sport component?